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Oak Leaf (40 days): Withstands hot 
weather without turning bitter. Leaf is 
shaped like its name. Are small, tender 
and deep green in color. 
Grand Rapids (45 days): Plants erect, 
compact, leaves light green, curly and 
heavily fringed. 
Prizehead (47 days): Plants medium size, 
crisp and tender. Color light reddish 
brown on a medium green base. 
Simpson's Early Curled (45 days): Leaves 
are large, crumpled and frilled on the 
edges. Color yellowish green. 
Head Lettuce. The type grown by com- 
mercial growers, and most popular with 
home gardeners. Head lettuce should be 
started indoors in flats and later trans- 
planted to the open garden, after the 
danger of frost is passed. This transplant- 
ing is also important in the forcing of 
plants into heading. Great Lakes is a 
newer variety that is rapidly becoming 
the most popular with home gardeners. 
New York, or Iceberg type, the favorite 
of commercial growers, is also planted 
extensively by home gardeners. 
Great Lakes (75 days): Very resistant to 
tip burn and withstands summer heat. 
Excellent for local markets. 
PSC Crispette (80 days): Large, firm and 
crisp heads. Leaves are bright green and 
slightly durly. 
New York (80 days): Heads are well 
blanched, sweet and tender. Pioneer of 
long distance shipping variety. 
Hanson (85 days): Heads are large, 
globular, compact. Light yellowish green 
in color. Good for mid-summer planting. 
MELONS 
Melons are only for the large garden and 
the determined gardener who will give 
his vines the cultural attention they re- 
quire from the outset, and will fight 
insects that might attack them. A long, 
sunny, hot season, with dry atmosphere, 
but sufficient soil moisture is required for 
good crop results. A light but well- 
manured soil, with mildly acid reaction, 
is also advantageous. 
Seed should be sown in hills that are 
five or six feet apart each way, with ap- 
proximately three plants to the hill. In 
the early season it is advisable to protect 
the young plants with hotcap paper 
covers until the vines begin to run. 
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WATERMELONS. 1% ounce, 15¢; 
ounce, 25c. Also Packets. 
Klondike (80 days): Large, oblong, 
slightly tapering and solid dark green. 
Flesh bright dark red. Seed small black. 
Striped Klondike (80 days): Shaped 
same as Klondike. Irregular dark green 
stripes on lighter background. Flesh 
deepest red of all melons. 
Black Seeded Ice Cream (85 days): 
Fruits small, nearly round, creamy white 
with faint irregular pale green stripes. 
Flesh deep red, very firm and fine quality. 
Best for most home gardens. 
Kleckley Sweet (85 days): Fruits large, 
cylindrical, dark bluish green with thin 
rind. Seed creamy white, trace of brown. 
MUSKMELONS. 1% ounce, 15c; ounce, 
25c. Also Packets. 
Hearts of Gold (90 days): Fruits nearly 
round, distinctly ribbed, deep green, 
flesh very thick and deep salmon color. 
3 to 31% pounds. 
Hale’s Best (80 days): Exceptionally 
thick, deep salmon colored flesh. Fruits 3 
to 4 pounds. 
Banana (98 days): Fruits smooth and: 
slender. Creamy yellow exterior. Flesh 
salmon color with banana-like flavor. 5% 
to 6 pounds each. 
Persian (100 days): Very large melon 
with slightly ribbed skin. Fruit light 
orange in color. Very sweet. 
Honey Dew (100 days): Large almost 
round melon with very light skin. Flesh 
pink or flesh green meat depending on 
variety. 
Casaba Golden Beauty (78 days): 
Wrinkled, bright golden yellow. skin. 
Fruits globular shaped and mature early. 
Flesh is white. 
MUSTARD 
The popular ‘‘Greens”’ of the South, and 
a vegetable that should be encouraged 
for Northern gardens, as it is extremely 
hardy, and the foliage when cooked like 
spinach presents a tasty dish that pleases 
the most particular taste. 
The variety chiefly grown is Southern 
Giant Curled. Seed is sown in the 
garden a little at a time in the spring and 
fall; seedlings coming up quickly and are 
thinned to stand about three inches apart. 
When the plants are four inches high, 
they may be cut for salads, and when they 
have reached a growth of six inches, or 
more, they are excellent for cooked 
greens. A packet of seed will supply 
enough for the average garden. 
W% ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. Also Packets. 
